Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android is getting new features
Microsoft has announced new improvements for Teams Rooms on Android, including updates to the calendar, Windows-inspired enhancements to the touch console, and an option to blur the background for users joining using a personal account.
All of this was announced in a new blog post.
It may be ...
Microsoft set to introduce Zoom-like Meeting Codes for Teams
The new feature addition aims to make it much easier for people to log into a video call.
Microsoft is adding the ability to join a meeting via a unique meeting Numeric “code”. When the feature rolls out, all meetings will have a Meeting ID that is automatically assigned to a Microsoft Teams...
CoScreen brings screen sharing and editing for development teams
Even engineering teams can get screen sharing and editing functionality. Remote collaboration has come a long way in the last year, but now even for developers there is a collaboration IDE tool.
Tools like Visual Studio Live Share emerged and startups like CodeSandbox and Replit raised money to ...
‘Discord exclusively negotiating with Microsoft on acquisition’
The negotiations between social medium Discord and Microsoft about a possible acquisition are at an advanced stage. The company is said to have no other potential buyers in mind. There is talk of a takeover sum of more than 10 billion dollars.
The Wall Street Journal writes this based on its own...
Slack’s move to be the global chat app of choice backfires
Slack rolled out a new feature this week named Connect DM. It allowed people to send direct messages to people they don’t even work with. A few hours later, the company was already regretting this decision because people showed just how easy it is for harassment and abuse to proliferate.
Slac...
Trust introduces webcam for meeting rooms
Trust has announced its IRIS webcam. It is a webcam intended for use in office spaces. The camera is plug & play and offers some smart features for video calls.
IRIS is equipped with a 4K camera with wide-angle lens and can automatically zoom in on the person who is talking. Furthermore, the...
‘Microsoft interested in acquiring Discord’
Discord seems to be toying with the idea of putting itself up for sale. Microsoft is one of the possible buyers, but an IPO is also being considered. The sale should generate over 10 billion dollars.
Bloomberg sources report this. Discord is said to be talking to several parties about an acquisi...
Avaya adds new AI features to Spaces
Telecommunications company Avaya has released a new update for its collaboration platform Spaces. The update brings improvements in image and sound quality and some AI features.
Avaya announced the changes in the new update in a press release. The company has made it easier to initiate phone cal...
Atlassian adds new formatting features to Confluence
Atlassian has released a new version of Confluence. The company has added some new features to improve the readability of contributions on the platform.
The new features in Confluence are outlined on Atlassian's website. To better serve employees in different time zones, Atlassian has added the ...
Nokia to develop cloud-based 5G with AWS, Google, and Microsoft
Finnish telecom equipment manufacturer Nokia announced on Monday that it is partnering with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google, to develop new 5G radio solutions based in the cloud.
The goal of this partnership, according to three separate statements made by the company, is to develop ne...
Automation Anywhere chooses Google Cloud as its partner in RPA
Automation Anywhere, the robotic process automation company, said on Sunday that it is bringing its main RPA offering to Google’s public cloud platform. This is part of a wider collaboration that will have the two companies working together on new products for customers they share.
On top of t...
Panasonic will pay $6.5 billion to acquire Blue Yonder
Blue Yonder is a supply chain software firm based in the US. Panasonic is aiming to acquire the company, by paying around 700 billion yen ($6.5 billion) for it.
Nikkei reports that the move will be the biggest acquisition by Panasonic since 2011 when it paid $7.36 billion (about 800 billion yen)...